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your Essential Skills?

The 21st century workplace needs a skilled workforce that's efficient, effective and adaptable, while workers need the skills required to perform successfully at work.


 

Case Studies

Examples from our files show the strong benefits of Essential Skills upgrading.

A training need can present itself at any time

Training is – or should be - an ongoing process to ensure everyone can meet changing job and task needs.

Resistance to Change... or an Essential Skills Need?

Absenteeism, grievances, workplace friction: are these symptoms of an Essential Skills issue?

Essential Skills training is key to productivity improvements

Changes to work processes to increase productivity are only possible with adequate levels of Essential Skills.

Essential Skills News

All the Essential Skills news in Manitoba that's fit to post.

CBC Radio connects with CAM project

Project coordinator David Robertson and CAM graduate Shane Sinclair discuss how to successfully connect Manitoba's Aboriginal people to employment in manufacturing with Information Radio host Terry MacLeod.

Develop Career Connections Through an ES Lens

The first anniversary edition of Manitoba's Career Development Connections newsletter highlights WEM's suggestion to view everything through an Essential Skills Lens.

Working with ColourAd Packaging

Winnipeg's ColourAd Packaging has been gearing up to double production this year, adding employees and intensifying training to bring everyone up to desired speed. In a recent story in Business Review Canada Magazine, they tip their hat to their partnership with WEM and our role in infusing Essential Skills throughout their training schedule. Read the article online (page 316) by clicking here.

Learning on Demand

Increasingly, people expect to be able to learn on their own terms: anytime, anywhere, in a way that meets their needs. Workplace Education Manitoba is proud to launch the internet-based ES: Learning On Demand. It’s just one more way to deliver Essential Skills learning support.

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